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INTERNET-DRAFT Editor: Kurt D. Zeilenga
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Intended Category: Standard Track OpenLDAP Foundation
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Expires in six months 15 February 2004
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Obsoletes: RFC 2251-2256, 2829-2830, 3377
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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP):
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Technical Specification Road Map
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<draft-ietf-ldapbis-roadmap-04.txt>
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Status of this Memo
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This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all
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provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
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This document is intended to be published as a Standard Track RFC.
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Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Technical discussion of this
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document will take place on the IETF LDAP Revision Working Group
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mailing list <ietf-ldapbis@openldap.org>. Please send editorial
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comments directly to the author <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>.
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Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task
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Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other
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groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
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Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
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and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
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time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
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material or to cite them other than as ``work in progress.''
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The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
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<http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt>. The list of
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Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
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<http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html>.
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
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Please see the Full Copyright section near the end of this document
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for more information.
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Abstract
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The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an Internet
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protocol for accessing distributed directory services which act in
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accordance with X.500 data and service models. This document provides
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a roadmap of the LDAP Technical Specification.
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Zeilenga LDAP: TS Road Map [Page 1]
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INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-roadmap-04 15 February 2004
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Conventions
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The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
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"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
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document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119].
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1. The LDAP Technical Specification
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The technical specification detailing version 3 of the Lightweight
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Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), an Internet Protocol, consists of
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this document and the following documents:
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LDAP: The Protocol [Protocol],
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LDAP: Directory Information Models [Models],
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LDAP: Authentication Methods and Connection Level Security
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Mechanisms [AuthMeth],
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LDAP: String Representation of Distinguished Names [LDAPDN],
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LDAP: String Representation of Search Filters [Filters],
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LDAP: Uniform Resource Locator [LDAPURL],
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LDAP: Syntaxes and Matching Rules [Syntaxes],
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LDAP: Internationalized String Preparation [LDAPprep], and
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LDAP: User Schema [Schema].
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The terms "LDAP" and "LDAPv3" are commonly used to informally refer to
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the protocol specified by this technical specification. The LDAP
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suite, as defined here, should be formally identified in other
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documents by a normative reference to this document.
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Extensions to LDAP may be specified in other documents. Nomenclature
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denoting such combinations of LDAP-plus-extension(s) is not defined by
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this document but may be defined in some future document(s).
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IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) considerations for LDAP
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described in BCP 64 [BCP64bis] apply fully to this revision of the
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LDAP technical specification.
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2. Relationship to X.500
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This technical specification defines LDAP in terms of [X.500] as an
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X.500 access mechanism. An LDAP server MUST act in accordance with
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X.500(1993) series of International Telecommunication Union - Telecom
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Standardization (ITU-T) Recommendations when providing the service.
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However, it is not required that an LDAP server make use of any X.500
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protocols in providing this service, e.g. LDAP can be mapped onto any
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other directory system so long as the X.500 data and service models
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[X.501][X.511] as used in LDAP is not violated in the LDAP interface.
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Zeilenga LDAP: TS Road Map [Page 2]
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INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-roadmap-04 15 February 2004
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This technical specification explicitly incorporates portions of
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X.500(93). Later revisions of X.500 do not automatically apply.
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3. Security Considerations
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LDAP security considerations are discussed in each document comprising
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the technical specification.
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4. Relationship to Obsolete Specifications
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This technical specification, as defined in Section 1, obsoletes
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entirely the previously defined LDAP technical specification [RFC3377]
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(which consists of RFC 2251-2256, RFC 2829-2830 and RFC 3377 itself).
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The technical specification was significantly reorganized.
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This document replaces RFC 3377 as well as Section 3.3 of RFC 2251.
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[Models] replaces portions of RFC 2251, RFC 2252 and RFC 2256.
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[Protocol] replaces the majority RFC 2251 and portions of RFC 2252.
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[AuthMeth] replaces RFC 2829, RFC 2830, and portions of RFC 2251.
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[Syntaxes] replaces the majority of RFC 2252 and portions of RFC 2256.
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[Schema] replaces the majority of RFC 2256. [LDAPDN] replaces RFC
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2253. [Filters] replaces RFC 2254. [LDAPURL] replaces RFC 2255.
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[LDAPprep] is new to this revision of the LDAP technical
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specification.
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Each document of this specification contains appendices summarizing
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changes to all sections of the specifications they replace. Appendix
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A.1 of this document details changes made to RFC 3377. Appendix A.2
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of this document details changes made to Section 3.3 of RFC 2251.
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Additionally, portions of this technical specification update and/or
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replace documents not listed above. These relationships are discussed
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in the documents detailings these portions of this technical
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specification.
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5. Acknowledgments
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This document is based largely on RFC 3377 by J. Hodges and R.
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Morgan, a product of the LDAPBIS and LDAPEXT Working Groups. The
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document also borrows from RFC 2251 by M. Wahl, T. Howes, and S.
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Kille, a product of the ASID Working Group.
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This document is a product of the IETF LDAPBIS Working Group.
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Zeilenga LDAP: TS Road Map [Page 3]
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INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-roadmap-04 15 February 2004
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6. Author's Address
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Kurt Zeilenga
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E-mail: <kurt@openldap.org>
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7. References
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7.1. Normative References
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[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
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Requirement Levels", BCP 14 (also RFC 2119), March 1997.
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[BCP64bis] Zeilenga, K., "IANA Considerations for LDAP", draft-
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ietf-ldapbis-bcp64-xx.txt, a work in progress.
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[Protocol] Sermersheim, J. (editor), "LDAP: The Protocol",
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draft-ietf-ldapbis-protocol-xx.txt, a work in progress.
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[Models] Zeilenga, K. (editor), "LDAP: Directory Information
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Models", draft-ietf-ldapbis-models-xx.txt, a work in
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progress.
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[AuthMeth] Harrison, R. (editor), "LDAP: Authentication Methods and
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Connection Level Security Mechanisms",
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draft-ietf-ldapbis-authmeth-xx.txt, a work in progress.
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[LDAPDN] Zeilenga, K. (editor), "LDAP: String Representation of
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Distinguished Names", draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-xx.txt, a
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work in progress.
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[Filters] Smith, M. (editor), LDAPbis WG, "LDAP: String
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Representation of Search Filters",
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draft-ietf-ldapbis-filter-xx.txt, a work in progress.
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[LDAPURL] Smith, M. (editor), "LDAP: Uniform Resource Locator",
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draft-ietf-ldapbis-url-xx.txt, a work in progress.
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[Syntaxes] Legg, S. (editor), "LDAP: Syntaxes and Matching Rules",
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draft-ietf-ldapbis-syntaxes-xx.txt, a work in progress.
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[LDAPprep] Zeilenga, K., "LDAP: Internationalized String
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Preparation", draft-ietf-ldapbis-strprep-xx.txt, a work
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in progress.
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[Schema] Dally, K. (editor), "LDAP: User Schema",
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draft-ietf-ldapbis-user-schema-xx.txt, a work in
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progress.
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Zeilenga LDAP: TS Road Map [Page 4]
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INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-roadmap-04 15 February 2004
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[X.500] International Telecommunication Union -
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Telecommunication Standardization Sector, "The Directory
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-- Overview of concepts, models and services,"
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X.500(1993) (also ISO/IEC 9594-1:1994).
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[X.501] International Telecommunication Union -
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Telecommunication Standardization Sector, "The Directory
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-- Models," X.501(1993) (also ISO/IEC 9594-2:1994).
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[X.511] International Telecommunication Union -
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Telecommunication Standardization Sector, "The
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Directory: Abstract Service Definition", X.511(1993).
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7.2. Informative References
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None.
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Appendix A. Changes to Previous Documents
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This appendix outlines changes this document makes relative to the
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documents it replaces (in whole or in part).
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Appendix A.1. Changes to RFC 3377
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This document is nearly a complete rewrite of RFC 3377 as much of the
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material of RFC 3377 is no longer applicable. The changes include
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redefining the terms "LDAP" and "LDAPv3" to refer to this revision of
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the technical specification.
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Appendix A.2. Changes to Section 3.3 of RFC 2251
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The section was modified slightly (the word "document" was replaced
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with "technical specification") to clarify that it applies to the
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entire LDAP technical specification.
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Zeilenga LDAP: TS Road Map [Page 5]
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INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-ldapbis-roadmap-04 15 February 2004
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Zeilenga LDAP: TS Road Map [Page 6]
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